Pete Buttigieg
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 10 May
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But I am nervous that anybody would equate
A president trying to direct the destruction, not only of journalists, but of comedians that he doesn't like, with public health authorities in a public health emergency that killed a million Americans doing their best to try to make sure that people got good public health information.
Yeah.
I mean, you rightly said, you know, folks like Bernie are to my left.
I don't know the details of the state and local proposals you just mentioned, but those sound on their face like they're further than I would go.
But look, in reality, we tax across a variety of things, right?
There's income taxes, payroll taxes, property tax.
Wealth tax would be kind of along the lines of a property tax.
And the thought, of course, is that you've got a lot of folks who have become incredibly wealthy.
And importantly, the way taxation works now, less and less of the way the wealthiest people accumulate their income is actually booked as income, right?
And this is why you have these stories of, you know, multibillion dollar corporations or multibillion dollar individuals somehow paying an effective tax rate that's lower than
than a teacher or a firefighter.
And I think most people get that that's wrong.
So I guess my overall take is, you know, everything has a balance, everything has limits.
But if you're asking me the question, are the wealthiest people in America right now paying too much tax or too little tax, I would say the wealthiest are paying too little tax.
And whether you adjust that through income tax, whether you adjust that through, you know, something like a wealth tax, and there's a
that it makes sense and that you do in a way that can make sure that the people who are spectacularly rewarded by our system are contributing to it without being so extreme that you're crushing wealth creation.
Yeah, I think that's super important.
And people's willingness to pay taxes depends on some level on their sense that they're getting good value for their money.
So I cut my teeth as a mayor.
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